Author: Josee Malette

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  • Josee Malette

    Dr. Josée Malette is an Emergency Medicine Resident in the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa. She is a Senior Editor with the Digital Scholarship and Knowledge Dissemination team for the EMOttawaBlog. Her interests involve critical care in low resource settings, medical education, rural medicine and prehospital medicine.

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PTM Journal Club
Featured, Prehospital and Transport Medicine, PTM Journal Club

PTM Journal Club: ROSC following Resuscitative Thoracotomy & Tibial IO’s in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Join us in our latest Pre-Hospital and Transport Medicine Journal Club, where we take a look at the most recent and relevant literature pertaining to the use of... Read more.
Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Quality Improvement

Change: Why Healthcare Reform is More Important Than Ever

As you’ve gleaned from the title of this blog post, today we are focusing our conversation on CHANGE; with a particular emphasis on its implications in h... Read more.
BHP Corner, Featured, Prehospital and Transport Medicine

BHP Corner: Respecting Patient Preferences

Emergency medicine is a fast-paced realm where paramedics and medical professionals must make split-second decisions that often mean the difference between life... Read more.
BHP Corner, cardiac arrest, Featured, Prehospital and Transport Medicine

BHP Corner: Decision Points in Cardiac Arrest

Case You and your partner arrive at a scene where a 67-year-old male had a witnessed collapse 5 minutes ago and CPR is in progress; he is in cardiac arrest. The... Read more.
prehospital pediatric analgesic
Featured, Full Article, Journal Club, Prehospital and Transport Medicine, PTM Journal Club

A Comparison of Prehospital Pediatric Analgesic Use of Ketamine and Opioids

Methodology:  3/5 Usefulness: 3/5   Frawley, John et al. “A Comparison of Prehospital Pediatric Analgesic Use of Ketamine and Opioids.” Prehospital e... Read more.
prehospital ketamine
Featured, Full Article, Journal Club, Prehospital and Transport Medicine, PTM Journal Club

A comparison of ketamine and morphine analgesia in prehospital trauma care: a cluster randomized clinical trial in rural Quang Tri province, Vietnam

Methodology: 3.5/5 Usefulness: 3.5/5   Tran, Kim Phung et al. “A comparison of ketamine and morphine analgesia in prehospital trauma care: a cluster rand... Read more.